Game apparatus



Jan. 17, 1928" 1,656,825 H. MCDOWELL GAME APPARATUS Filed Oct. 31, 1927 INVENTOR ATTQRNEY \VITNESE:

Patented Jan. 17, 1928.

UNITEDQSTATES HOWARD MCDOWELL, O1? LEVYISTOVTN, ILLINOIS.

GAME AE'IPABATUS.

Application filed October 31, 1927.

This invention relates to game apparatus, an object being to provide an apparatus of this type which maybe placed upon a regular or pocket billiard table and used by one or more players.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a game apparatus in which chance as well as skill will be an important factor, so that a poor or inexperienced player, and a good or expert player will be more evenly matched.

YVith the above andother objects in View, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illus trated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the apparatus in position upon a billiard table.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2of Figure 1.

Figures 3 and 4t are sections takenrespectively on the lines 3-3 and 44 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 15 indicates a portion of a regular or pocket billiard table, the rails of which are indicated at 16.

The improved game apparatus is adapted to be placed upon the table at the end opposite scratch and comprises a base 17. This base is supported upon spaced tapered rails 18 which are secured transversely of its bottom, so that the upper face of the base is inclined downwardly from the adjacent end of the table toward the center.

Serial No. 230,016.

this rail together with the adjacent strips 20 form the side walls of passages 22 whose inner ends communicate with the space between the ends of the strips 20 and the rail The bottoms of the pockets 22 are inclined as shown at 23, so that the entrance ends 24 of these pockets have their edges so formed as to permit of the ready entrance of a rolling ball. The base and pockets are covered and lined with a suitable lining 25 of felt, so that the balls will readily roll over the base and into the pockets.

Each oi the pockets is numbered as indirated in Figural of the drawings, and the players roll the ball from scratch along the top of the table through the passages and when momentum of the ball is checked it will gravitate into one of the pockets. The rail 21 assists in checking and guiding the ball. The pockets may be consecutively numbered as shown, or they may have the numbers arranged in any other manner. The player having the highest score in a predetermined number of rolls or plays will win the game.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as proper-. ly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention what is claimed is 2-- 1. The combination with a billiard table, of a game apparatus adapted to be placed at one end of the table and comprising an inclined base, a duplicating rail extending along each end and longitudinally of the uppermost edge of the base, pockets positioned upon the base with their open ends opposed to and spaced from the longitudinally extending rail and passages provided between the end rails and the adjacent sides of pockets and communicating with the space between the pockets and the longitudinal rail. U

2. A game apparatus comprising a flat inclined base, a strip extending longitudinally adjacent one edge of .the base and terminating short of each end, partition strips extending transversely of the base from the longitudinal strip and terminating short of side passages which communicate with the the other longitudinal edge of the base and longitudinal passage, inclined bottoms for defining a longitudinal passage with transthe side passages, and indicia "For each of verse pockets opening into the passage, a the pockets.

5 rail extending along the upper and side In testimonywhereof Iaflix my signature.

edges of the base and cooperating with the partition strips of the pockets to provide HOWARD MODOWELL. 

